Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast)
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Brand: Baker & TaylorEdition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2006-12-12
Music Label: Decca Broadway
Soundtracks:
- Mamma Who Bore Me
- Mamma Who Bore Me (Reprise)
- All That's Known
- The B*tch of Living
- My Junk
- Touch Me
- The Word of Your Body
- The Dark I Know Well
- And Then There Were None
- The Mirror-Blue Night
- I Believe
- Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind
- The Guilty Ones
- Left Behind
- Totally F*ucked
- The Word of Your Body (Reprise)
- Whispering
- Those You've Known
- The Song of Purple Summer
Music reviews of Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: The awakening of songwriter Duncan Sheik
Rating: 4 Stars
The awakening of songwriter Duncan Sheik
by Jason W. Lloren
(Published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 9, 2007)
Duncan Sheik walks into a Starbucks in Menlo Park and instead of a coffee he grabs two bottles, a sparkling mineral water and a mixed juice. He settles down at a table and mixes the two into a plastic cup.
"I think I have the market cornered on Pellegrino and Odwalla," jokes Sheik, taking a short break from a recent theater workshop a few blocks away in Palo Alto.
It's the kind of creative alchemy that has worked successfully for the 37-year-old New York singer-songwriter.
In the past decade, Sheik, a practicing Buddhist, has released a string of pop-rock albums that combine brittle balladry ("She Runs Away") with literate optimism ("On a High"); scored films, including 2004's "A Home at the End of the World" with Colin Farrell; and written a diverse range of music for the stage.
Now he can add a new title to his name: Broadway composer.
In November, "Spring Awakening," a collaboration with writer-lyricist Steven Sater, premiered at Broadway's Eugene O'Neill Theatre to critical praise. Merging power-chord anthems and gentle rock monologues with a 1891 German play about youthful sexual discovery and frustration, "Spring Awakening" stands out among the recent "jukebox musicals" and adaptations that have hit the stage, such as "Jersey Boys," "Legally Blonde," "Movin' Out" and "High Fidelity."
And with such provocative song titles as "Totally F -- " and "The Bitch of Living," the musical is not standard Broadway fare. Nonetheless, Sheik says, everyone from "15-year-old girls and 75-year-old couples" have been attending the show. "So I know that ... something's happening there that's relatively universal."
"Spring Awakening" is not the only stage project keeping Sheik busy. He and Sater participated in the TheatreWorks workshop to fine-tune their adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's short story "The Nightingale." Unlike "Spring Awakening," it's not a rock musical.
Rather, Sheik says, it's a "really elegant chamber piece" with a string quartet, woodwinds and harp. "So from the standpoint of instrumentation, it might be more traditional than 'Spring Awakening,' " he says.
"The Nightingale" is the third theater collaboration Sheik and Sater have developed sporadically over the past half-decade. Last spring, their work "Nero (Another Golden Rome)" was staged at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco.
Unlike either "Spring Awakening" or "The Nightingale," "Nero" is "more of a play with music" than a full-blown musical, Sheik says.
The one constant through these three collaborations, he says, is how he and Sater work together -- by working separately.
"Our collaborative process is probably a little bit odd and eccentric," Sheik says. "Steven sits in his room and writes lyrics and writes the book. And I sit in my room, and I take a lyric that he sent me and I set it to music. And we're never in the same room together until we were at the theater."
For the Grammy-nominated singer, who's perhaps more widely known for his solo work starting with his breakout 1996 hit "Barely Breathing," bringing his music sensibility to the stage has met some hurdles.
"What's really a challenge is to make guitars and drums work onstage," he says, "because the nature of rock music is that it's meant to be really loud and visceral. And the nature of theater, especially Broadway kind of theater and musicals, is that you're meant to hear every word. ... So you have to balance these two demands."
In addition, as a solo artist, he also had to adjust to the collaborative nature of theater -- dealing with the "really intense visions," he says, of the director, the choreographer, the actors, even the lighting director.
"It was kinda like, 'Well, this is my music and this is my song and this is how I want it to sound and I could care less what you think,' " Sheik says. "And I learned really quickly that that approach doesn't work in the theater."
Despite some of the difficulty involved in putting together a Broadway show, Sheik says it has produced great personal rewards for him.
"It's the most fulfilling creative experience of my entire life," he says. "I love this idea of telling a great story and then using music to help the narrative expand ... in its emotional depth."
Outside of his stage work, 2006 was already a busy year for Sheik. He started the year by releasing his fifth CD, "White Limousine" and ended it by putting out "Brighter/Later: A Duncan Sheik Anthology," which includes his best-of and other rarities, like a cover of Joni Mitchell's "Court and Spark."
Somewhere in there, he and his band found time to tour.
"We did 150 shows over the course of about 15 months. ... It was too much," he says wearily. Then he laughs: "I was over it."
The forthcoming year promises to keep Sheik on a busy schedule. He'll continue to promote "Spring Awakening," including a Feb. 21 appearance with the show's cast on thee "Late Show With David Letterman."
His next film work includes scoring actress Mary Stuart Materson's directorial debut "The Cake Eaters." Sheik believes the film will make the indie-film circuit later this year.
He also continues to focus some of his energy on solo work. He plans a much smaller tour -- probably 20 shows this year -- and a covers album with a personal twist. It'll be an album of '80s songs from what he calls "English art-pop bands," like the Cure, the Smiths, Tears for Fears and Psychedelic Furs. His plan is to make "morose, sad, melancholic versions" of their songs.
[...]
"Not that they're not already morose in their own way," he jokes. "I'm gonna really bring it down."
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Description of Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast)
Decca Broadway presents the cast recording for the acclaimed new Broadway production, SPRING AWAKENING. Written by pop music composer Duncan Sheik and playwright/lyricist Steven Sater, the musical explores emotional earthquakes in the lives of teenagers.SPRING AWAKENING is based on Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 drama, which was scandalous in its day for addressing sex violence and suicide. The story, dialogue and costumes suggest the 19th Century, and are perfectly wedded to a beautiful alternative pop music score by Grammy® nominated singer/songwriter Duncan Sheik. The creative team also includes Tony® Award Winning director Michael Mayer (Thoroughly Modern Millie) and legendary choreographer Bill T. Jones.
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